The Black Box That Bothered Me Enough to Open It
A Mechanical Engineer Walks Into a Neural Network I need to be honest about something. When ChatGPT exploded into public consciousness, I felt left behind. Everyone was talking about it. Using it. Marvelling at it. And I was sitting there thinking: I have no idea what is actually happening inside that thing. That bothered me more than it should have. You see, I have never liked black boxes. In my simulation work, I need to know why a model behaves a certain way. Is it a physics limitation? A numerical instability? A mistake in my boundary conditions? If I cannot explain the failure, I cannot fix it. ...